In a tea garden in Assam’s Jorhat district on Friday, a dead body of a wild elephant calf was found.
Meanwhile, at Kasojan tea estate near Titabor in the Jorhat district, the carcass of the elephant calf was spotted by some people after which people informed the local forest officials.
In search of food, the elephant came out from a nearby jungle area and was part of a herd of wild elephants.
Moreover, the exact cause of death of the elephant calf is yet to be ascertained, said Diganta Hazarika, forest official of Jorhat district.
“Today morning, the tea garden authority informed us that an elephant calf has been found dead in the tea garden. We immediately reached the spot and informed our higher authority,” Hazarika said.
The forest official further said, “We have also called the veterinary doctor and we will come to know the cause of death after the examination. The age of the dead elephant calf is around 3 months old. There were around 53 wild elephants in the herd.”
Earlier on Thursday at the Joyramkuchi area under the Lakhipur forest range in Assam’s Goalpara district, a wild elephant was found dead in a paddy field.
However, in November also a dead body of a wild elephant was found in a paddy field in the Kankata area in the Goalpara district.
